San Benito-Santa Cruz County CA Archives Biographies.....Rudolph, Christian 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

CHRISTIAN RUDOLPH, one of the most independent and prosperous early settlers, is
a leading agriculturist of Bitter Water valley, San Benito county. He was one of
the first to locate in this favored region, where he has become so highly esteemed.

  Mr. Rudolph is a native of Denmark, where he was reared to manhood and fought
in the Danish army, from 1863 to 1864. At this time he went to Germany, and from
there sailed for America, landing in New-York. He came almost immediately to
California, via Panama, and upon reaching San Francisco he proceeded to
Watsonville, where he worked six years on a farm. Mr. Rudolph then purchased of
Mr. Rufus Small and Mr. Matthis a squatter's right to about 400 acres of land,
200 acres of which is tilled.

  Our subject was married, in 1872 to Ellen M. Smith, a daughter of P. Smith.
Mrs. Rudolph is a native of the same land as her husband, and came to America
from Denmark when only nineteen years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph have six
children, namely: Louis, born June 19, 1873; Peter, born July 16, 1875; Katie,
born May 8, 1877; Annie, born April 21, 1879; Paul, born March 31, 1881; and
Allen, born July 23, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph are highly esteemed among their
fellow townsmen as being very honorable, upright people, and all agree that they
richly deserve the good fortune they now enjoy.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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